Springer Milan: 299 books

Cover of Rotors: Stress Analysis and Design
by Vincenzo Vullo, Francesco Vivio
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Stress and strain analysis of rotors subjected to surface and body loads, as well as to thermal loads deriving from temperature variation along the radius, constitutes a classic subject of machine design. Nevertheless attention is limited to rotor profiles for which governing equations are solvable...
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We are the Martians

Connecting Cosmology with Biology

by Giovanni F Bignami
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012

For many thousands of years, human beings have been asking themselves whether they are more frightened of being alone in the universe or of the thought that there is someone else out there. Over the past few decades, however, we have moved from imagination to action, exploring the cosmos using new...
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by Pietro Paolo Milella
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012

This textbook, suitable for students, researchers and engineers, gathers the experience of more than 20 years of teaching fracture mechanics, fatigue and corrosion to professional engineers and running experimental tests and verifications to solve practical problems in engineering applications. As...
Cover of Complex Models and Computational Methods in Statistics
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013

The use of computational methods in statistics to face complex problems and highly dimensional data, as well as the widespread availability of computer technology, is no news. The range of applications, instead, is unprecedented. As often occurs, new and complex data types require new strategies,...
Cover of Solving Numerical PDEs: Problems, Applications, Exercises
by Alessandro Veneziani, Fausto Saleri, Luca Formaggia
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012

This book stems from the long standing teaching experience of the authors in the courses on Numerical Methods in Engineering and Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations given to undergraduate and graduate students of Politecnico di Milano (Italy), EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland), University...
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Modified Inferior Turbinoplasty

A new surgical approach

by Paolo Gottarelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012

Humans can resist 40 days without eating and 4 days without drinking, but only 4 minutes without breathing: this tells us much about its fundamental importance. Breathed air is slowed down, filtered, warmed and humidified by the nose; many mechanisms are involved in this act, which prevent bronchial...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015

This handbook is a practical, easy-to-use reference that offers step-by-step instruction on ultrasound-guided interventional procedures for treatment of musculoskeletal pain of the lower limb. Each chapter is clearly structured and starts by offering a brief but comprehensive description of the disease...
Cover of Total, Subtotal and Proximal Gastrectomy in Cancer
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015

This richly illustrated volume describes the performance of total and subtotal gastrectomy with extended D2 lymphadenectomy by providing a detailed step-by-step guide to both manual and mechanical procedures. Gastric cancer is the fourth most commonly occurring cancer and the second most common cancer-related...
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Anesthesia of the Upper Limb

A State of the Art Guide

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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013

Loco-regional anesthesia offers evident advantages in almost all branches of surgery since it couples perfect anesthesia with prolonged postoperative analgesia. Furthermore, new drugs and techniques are ensuring constant progress, and in the past decade the advent of ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia...
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From Total Quality Control to Lean Six Sigma

Evolution of the Most Important Management Systems for the Excellence

by Andrea Chiarini
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012

The main purpose of this paper is to compare and discuss the evolution of six important management systems: Japanese Total Quality Control (JTQC), Total Quality Management (TQM), Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Lean Thinking and Six Sigma. Indeed the...
Cover of Geometric Properties for Parabolic and Elliptic PDE's
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

The study of qualitative aspects of PDE's has always attracted much attention from the early beginnings. More recently, once basic issues about PDE's, such as existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions, have been understood quite well, research on topological and/or geometric properties of their...
Cover of Basics of Plasma Astrophysics
by Claudio Chiuderi, Marco Velli
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014

This book is an introduction to contemporary plasma physics that discusses the most relevant recent advances in the field and covers a careful choice of applications to various branches of astrophysics and space science. The purpose of the book is to allow the student to master the basic concepts...
Cover of Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification
by Daniele Fabrizio Bignami
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014

Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more...
Cover of A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing
by Andrea Sommariva, Giovanni F. Bignami
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013

This book develops a credible scenario for interstellar exploration and colonization. In so doing, it examines: • the present situation and prospects for interstellar exploration technologies; • where to go: the search for habitable planets; • the motivations for space travel and colonization; •...
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